“The enemies of conservatism are eager to supply their own nomenclature.
“White Supremacist” seems to be their current favorite. It is meant
maliciously, of course, to bring up images of fire-hoses, attack dogs,
pick handles, and segregated lunch counters—to imply that conservatives,
especially non-mainstream conservatives, are cruel people with dark
thoughts. Leaving aside the intended malice, I actually think “White
Supremacist” is not bad semantically. White supremacy, in the sense of a
society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of
the better arrangements History has come up with. There have of course
been some blots on the record, but I don’t see how it can be denied that
net-net, white Europeans have made a better job of running fair and
stable societies than has any other group.”

Some blots on the record, John? Really? I can think of more than a few such as the Atlantic Slave Trade, Jim Crow segregation, Nazism, the Holocaust, apartheid, wiping out the Central and South American Indian empires, the Caribbean native peoples, nearly wiping out the First Nations and Native Americans in the United States and Canada... gee y'all help me out here

What, you still pissed because your racism got you bounced from the National Review? Then again, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. was right in admonishing us African-descended peeps and our allies to be more concerned with the racists wearing Brooks Brothers suits and Gucci pumps than the ones wearing pointed hoods and white sheets.

But duh, every non-white person on Planet Earth and in the United States with the exception of brainwashed souls like Clarence Thomas, Jesse Lee Peterson, Allen West, Janice Rogers Brown, Angela McGlowan, Herman Cain and whatever Oreo-cookie chomping knee-grow du jour the conservafools trot out as a 'we're not racist' human shield can tell you from painful experience and perusing our history that conservatism only benefits white people.

You white peeps who call yourselves 'proud conservatives' are when we
start telling the truth about this fracked up situation nothing more than racism and oppression
enablers, and you're either too obtuse to see it, don't care or like the status quo.

Do you really think that African-Americans voting at 90-95% clips for Democratic Party candidates at every level of government occurs in a vacuum?

If you do wake up and stop smelling the vanillacentric privilege and trying to justify the ALEC inspired voter suppression laws.

You damn skippy for mine and my people's survival I despise conservatism. It is a political system I learned early in life to have no love for that is as Derbyshire let slip out and has been reinforced lately with the foaming at the mouth displays of Obama Derangement Syndrome courtesy of the Tea Klux Klan and Republican Party is rooted in white supremacy.

Why would I or any self-aware and conscious African-American cast votes that you're busy trying to suppress for conservative politicians that seek to oppress and repress my community?

To expand and remix a Lani Guinier quote, in a racially divided society, we have to always be on guard for our own survival that majority rule doesn't become majority tyranny.

But duh, we already knew that conservatism=racism and white supremacy. We non-white folks in liberal progressive circles wonder how long it was going to take for you to see that and not have the conservafools mean spirited statements, writings and jacked up governing policies spell it out for you?

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